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by anthonyb 15y ago
For the record, his suggestion to openly commit to not use patents was taken up recently by Twitter and widely applauded, although he copped an amazing amount of flak at the time. I found his blog though, so all is not lost: http://pl.atyp
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I disagree. There are plenty of snarky people on HN who know what they're talking about and aren't afraid to tell you. Unfortunately, that means that they get a disproportionate share of downvoting groupthink. Perhaps the saddest example (f
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I'd forgotten about [dead] comments. I'll add that in - thanks!
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Well, I come to HN for the discussion, so I want to engage. Not with the idiots obviously, but I'm finding that karma is an insidious brainhook that makes me start taking things personally. Particularly drive-by downvotes - they drive me in
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Show HN: I got tired of stressing about my karma, so I wrote this.(bitbucket.org)
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Nice downvote, but compare his screenshot and mine. There's something pretty clearly wrong with his stylesheets or browser or something. There are no visible controls in his new GMail section - something that nobody else seems to have. Furt
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There are a bunch of channels on there though. Some sort of trance might be more your thing: http://www.di.fm/classictrance
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by anthonyb 15y ago
It shouldn't be a free pass though ;) "A big red button is awful." isn't much good compared to "A big red button is awful because ..." or "Instead of a big red button you should do ..."
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by anthonyb 15y ago
That's a very common UI mechanism on the web. The alternative is to have a bunch of handles and buttons plastered over everything. Most desktop UIs are the same - there's all sorts of right click options on various UI elements, and have bee
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Well, it works just fine for me. Look, non-eyeburning theme, different coloured stars, non-hidden mailboxes. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7101/6972254464_24774f868a_z.j... Just for kicks, I switched to the default theme - same deal, mail
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I don't find it that slow - but you can hit 'expand all' in the top right (next to the printer icon) to download the whole thread at once.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Who says they're awful? You just don't like them. Fair enough that you don't, but putting your opinion forward as fact (like most of the people here and the OP) doesn't really advance the argument. Perhaps a lot of people have trouble findi
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Go to Settings > Labels, then pick the ones that you want to show. Pity your "months of USE" didn't take you that far...
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There isn't on my GMail, because I figured out how to change the theme ...
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Click on the little arrow next to your folder/label. Under the 'In label list:' part, select 'Show'. Now your folders appear all the time. Also, you can click the "More" at the bottom to expand it. Why is that so hard? EDIT: No really - why
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by anthonyb 15y ago
All of the things that he's complaining about are changeable in settings. And not even buried three levels deep -- they're right on the first settings page! 1. Pick a different theme. I have one with a blue background, not the default light
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by anthonyb 15y ago
No, they're real - or appear to be, from a quick google search: http://tomsachs.com/ http://visionpointmarketing.com/blog/entry/on-process/ Although it does seem to be some sort of parody for an artist's studio to be claiming that "crea
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by anthonyb 15y ago
A sidenote, but over the top of that Steve Yegge post is an ad: Join Google+: Share the right things with just the right people. Made me snigger, anyway...
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17 equations that changed the world(brainpickings.org)
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Heap overflow bug in OpenSSL(lists.grok.org.uk)
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by anthonyb 15y ago
It does have a close button - in exactly the same shade and position as the preview dialogs.
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Also all of the rare earth minerals, like Platinum, Palladium, Tantalum, Niobium, etc. Useful for other high tech endeavours like fuel cells, capacitors, solar cells. Energy via solar satellites might also be possible, if the mechanism to t
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Microphones aren't that expensive though - maybe a couple hundred for a semi-decent one and a reasonable sound card? Lots of people would spend that on a guitar. The latency might be an issue live, but there's no reason that the musicians c
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The secret guild of Silicon Valley(medriscoll.com)
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I suspect you also pay for your 3rd party services, which the GP's company doesn't seem to do.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
> a, b, and c, and there is no other / better service, so it's a difficult one to solve. You don't say what the service is, but if your company is relying on it to the extent that you need to be awake at 3am, then I suspect it's well wo
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by anthonyb 15y ago
> Tests don't magically help you invent features/work around introduced issues in 3rd party systems. Uh, yes they do. You want a unit or system test which covers the case where an external system is down or returns something that you ca
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I guess that's what happens when you don't have enough tests... </cheap shot>
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If one of the key ideas behind Science is thorough peer review, and the code that your paper relies on is essentially unreviewable and untestable, how is it any different from just not releasing it?
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by anthonyb 15y ago
GMail isn't perfect. I usually get at least one spam per day, usually for stuff which should've been picked up by any decent spam filter (all caps, or "Hello I am Mr. Otogonoyu from Nigeria and I have US$4.8M to give you...") I sometimes wo

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